Scargill went on to look at whether a 2D universe (again, plus time) would be sufficiently complex to allow for complex life.

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Though impressively old, later radiocarbon dating of the clam revealed it to be older still, 507 years old to be precise.

“The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was founded in 1958 in response to the so-called Space Race with the Soviet Union to land the first man on the Moon. Today we find ourselves in yet ...

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